Many people, even having matured, remember the dishes that were given to them by caring nannies. It is not surprising that recipes so beloved in childhood are so popular.
In our article, we will consider how to cook pea soup, as in a kindergarten. The recipe is perfect for everyday cuisine, and for a family dinner.
Taste of a carefree childhood
A magnificent omelet, an elastic casserole, pancakes with jam, tender goulash, boiled porridge sprinkled with oil - all these treats are simply impossible to forget. Pea soup is one of those dishes that for many remain favorite for life.
But before you cook a delicious pea soup, exactly the one served in the kindergarten, let's look at the features of this dish. What is so different about it that distinguishes it from other recipes?
- For pea soup in the kindergarten are not used for sausages, nor smoked meats.
- In it, the minimum amount of fat, even onions and carrots, is not preliminarily fried in oil.
- Chicken is used to make the broth. Pieces of meat are added to the soup.
- Serve soup with crackers.
Well, let's try to make pea soup, as in kindergarten, with our own hands.
Essential Products
To cook tender pea soup for children, peas can be soaked in water in advance. It is better to take chicken, home-made, meat breed. For the recipe, we need the following products:
- chopped peas - 300 g;
- chicken broth (secondary) - 2 l;
- carrots and onions - 1 pc.;
- salt to taste.
Please note: potatoes are not used for the classic recipe. But with a great desire, you can chop 1-2 tubers, while reducing the amount of peas.
Cooking broth
To make the soup fragrant and beautiful, the meat should be loaded into cold water. Put the pan on medium heat, cover and do not forget to remove noise from time to time.
Secondary broth is preferred for the kids menu. The first is better to merge (it can be used in the preparation of any dishes for adults). Re-fill the meat also need cold water. The secondary broth is more transparent and delicate.
How to cook peas
At the same time, while the broth is being cooked, you can start preparing peas. Rinse it thoroughly, drain the water. Pour cold water (half a liter) and set to boil over low heat. The procedure will take at least an hour.
Some housewives add soda at this stage to make the peas boil faster, but if you plan to make pea soup for children, this component is extremely undesirable!
Remove pop-up white foam with a slotted spoon. When boiling, be sure to stir the peas so that it does not stick to the bottom of the pan.
Cooking soup
To get the same pea soup as in kindergarten, you need to grate the carrots on the smallest grater that you have. Chop the onion with a sharp knife as small as possible.
Gently pour the hot broth into the cooked peas (not vice versa!), And mix thoroughly. As soon as the future soup boils, send the vegetables into it. Reduce gas to a minimum and let the soup cook for about half an hour.
Cut chicken into cubes or tear with your hands, separating by fiber, and also send to a pot with pea soup.
The recipe is simple, as we see, there is nothing complicated in it. It remains only to wait for the final boiling of vegetables and salt the dish to taste. If desired, you can add a little young greenery to it.
If among the tasters of the dish there will not be very young children, you can pre-lightly fry the vegetables. In order not to spoil the delicate taste, use butter, not vegetable. Boil in this case, the soup faster.
White bread crackers
To achieve maximum similarity and prepare pea soup, as in kindergarten, be sure to take care of crackers! A white loaf is suitable for their preparation.
Cut it into squares or sticks (as you like) and lay it in one layer on a dry baking sheet or deco. Bake in a well preheated oven until a golden hue is obtained.
Garlic can also be served with crackers. This idea is especially good in the cold season.
Serving and serving
This is a self-sufficient dish, it does not need additions. To withstand the entourage, serve pea soup in white deep plates, serve the table with plain plain napkins. You should not put crackers on plates, otherwise they will get wet. They are served in a separate bowl, from which everyone himself can take them.
Pea soup in the children's menu
Before you prepare a delicious pea soup for your baby, you should find out some details about this dish. Peas are not an intuitive product. It should be administered with caution.
At what age can pea soup be given? From a year and a half, if the baby is absolutely healthy. If the crumbs have problems with the digestive tract, you should wait until two years. For the first feeding, soups prepared using vegetable broth or water, but not chicken broth, are used.
Soups with frying in oil, cooked in meat broth, should not be given to children before they reach the age of four. A rich pea soup with smoked meats or hunting sausages should be offered to the baby no earlier than 6 years old.
Soups cooked on a bone broth are not suitable for the children's menu. Use tender chicken meat, preferably breast. If you plan to cook the broth from the thighs, first cut off the skin and fat from them.
Such feeding should be administered with great care. In no case do not make a children's menu so that it combines two or more dishes prepared from legumes. If for lunch you plan to treat your baby with pea soup, there should not be any dishes with beans for dinner and breakfast. Refuse on this day should be from fish, nuts, sausages.
Note the amount of soup in the food diary and how the baby’s body reacted to the new dish. Start with one spoon, gradually increase the amount. It is necessary to acquaint the child with a new dish for him in the morning, and not before bedtime. If the child likes the taste of such a first dish, after a while it will be possible to introduce pea puree into his diet.
If you offer the dish for the first time, and then, the first time after entering the menu, pea soup should be grated through a sieve. Even if your baby is chewing confidently, do it. The fact is that in this form the product is much easier to digest.
Use good quality ground peas for making soup. Rinse it thoroughly before starting cooking.
Fresh pea soup
In the menu of children under two years old there should not be raw young peas. But this healthy vegetable can be used to make soup. In kindergarten this dish is not served, but it is perfect for the kids menu.
To prepare a serving, boil 2 tablespoons of rice in half a liter of water. Add half the carrots grated on a fine grater. When rice and carrots are cooked, form 4-5 chicken meatballs with your hands and load into boiling soup. Add a handful of green peas, bring to a boil, add salt to taste.
It is possible to introduce this dish to the diet of children upon reaching one and a half year old age, who chew confidently.
The benefits of pea soup
Every mother who is interested in the recipe for this dish probably also wants to know how pea soup is useful for children.
In its composition, the dish contains many useful components.
- minerals (potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, iodine, iron);
- lipotropic substances (lecithin, choline, methionine);
- vitamins PP, B, C, E, provitamin-A (beta-carotene);
- folic acid;
- glucose, sucrose.
The energy value of pea soup cooked in chicken broth, as in a kindergarten, is 75 kcal per 100 grams of product.
This hot meal is perfect for the prevention of colds. It helps to quickly warm up and restore the strength of the body. Enhances the effect of garlic, which can be rubbed on crackers.
Thanks to its composition, pea soup has an effect on the entire digestive system, stimulates its work, strengthens the muscles of internal organs.
Nutritionists cite this dish as one of the most successful dishes for a low-calorie menu. Those who want to say goodbye to overweight should introduce pea soup into their diet. It makes it possible to get enough and get a large amount of nutrients and valuable components, but it does not overload the body with calories. Of course, we are talking about just such a variant of the recipe, and not about soup with smoked meat. If you want to cook a diet dish - choose pea soup, as in a kindergarten.
Regular consumption of pea soup, especially cooked on delicate chicken broth, and not on smoked meats, makes it possible to improve metabolism, which, in turn, determines the establishment of the work of all body systems. At the same time, immunity is strengthened, and resistance to carcinogens is increased.
Mom's note
Before boiling pea soup for your child, soak the beans. This will eliminate the use of soda. For soup, it is better to buy light green and yellow-green peas, when boiled, it turns out to be very tender.
When cooking, you can use modern technology: a slow cooker for boiling dishes, a blender for homogeneous mashed potatoes.
If there are problems with the digestive tract, pea soup should be discarded. There is also individual intolerance: in rare cases, boiled peas can cause allergies.